[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 63 points 3 weeks ago

An SEO specialist walks into a bar, saloon, watering hole, place to get drinks, neighborhood bar, dive bar, best mixed drinks, beer on tap...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 72 points 1 month ago

Guy buying condoms? He's hoping to get some.

Guy buying tampons? He's definitely getting some.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 96 points 3 months ago

As much as I think a "would you like to have a beer with the candidates?" is a stupid way of measuring things...I wouldn't mind having a beer with these candidates.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 79 points 3 months ago

How about we give parents one extra vote per child.

But they have to wait 18 years to use it.

And they can't directly use it, it's more that they get a delegate of sorts.

And this delegate


let's call them, I dunno, ~~their kid~~ "offspring voter"


isn't legally bound to vote one way or another.

And how about this person votes in a manner that in some way reflects how they were raised, and their worldy experiences


possibly voting exactly as the parents would, or possibly exactly opposite, or anywhere in between.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 75 points 4 months ago

Having survived grad school and then some without a dishwasher, I will never look at loading/unloading the dishwasher as a chore; it is a privilege to do so (and is always followed by a heartfelt Thank You to that most selfless of appliances).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 76 points 5 months ago

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 70 points 5 months ago

Hilarious to me that it OCRs the text. The text is generated by the computer. It's almost like when Lt. Cmdr. Data wants to get information from the computer database, so he tells the computer to display it and just keeps increasing the speed


there are way more efficient means of getting information from A to B than displaying it, imaging it, and running it though image processing!

I totally get that this is what makes sense, and it's independent of the method/library used for generating text, but still...the computer "knows" what it's displaying (except for images of text), and yet it has to screenshot and read it back.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 103 points 5 months ago

I like the sentiment, but there are non-peer reviewed papers that are real science. Politics and funding are real things, and there is a bit of gatekeeping here, which isn't really good IMHO.

Also, reproducibility is a sticky subject, especially with immoral experiments (which can still be the product of science, however unsavory), or experiments for which there are only one apparatus in the world (e.g., some particle physics).

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 67 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  1. Print out 8KB on high quality paper.
  2. Store in good environment...
[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 86 points 6 months ago

Have a kid...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 65 points 8 months ago

Lights on boat began to flicker before incident, suggesting some sort of power failure. Steering a full size car without power steering is possible, but spoiler, steering a huge container ship ain't.

Someone commented that exhaust increased noticably as well, possibly because pilot put ship in reverse after losing power (with prop walk veering the ship into the support).

All just people talking on the Internet at present, but "asleep at the wheel" isn't necessarily what happened.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 68 points 8 months ago

Not really though


from NPS:

The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above.

I think the dinosaur moment would be more of a global phenomenon, e.g., rising ocean temperature. My understanding is that Death Valley is obscenely hot with or without humans. The rising ocean temperature and melting ice caps, on the other hand...🦖🌎💥

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